(January 29, 2014 at 11:02 am)TaraJo Wrote: Well, judging from what I know about nutrition, vegan diets have amazing cholesterol compared to the average American diet. Our diet is pretty darn heavy in meats, which tends to contribute to a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet. Yep, vegans tend to have a lower fat diet than us, too. But, these are all generalizations and I'm sure there are individuals who don't exactly conform to norms.
I think that is why I have a hard time with this "vegan diet thingy" in Oz we don't eat nearly as much meat or fats or flour or sugar as Americans are purported to. Yet there are those who look like tele-tubbies and they are on either vegetarian or high veggies diets and their cholesterol levels are just perfect, yet they are rather on the obese side of weight. There is more happening here than just food intake
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